Patents by Inventor Paul Gruber
Paul Gruber has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 11913405Abstract: An airflow profile structure having a leading and/or trailing edge profiled with a serrated profile having a succession of teeth and depressions. Along the leading and/or trailing edge, from a first location to a second location, the teeth of the serrated profile are individually inclined towards the second location.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2023Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Safran Aircraft EnginesInventors: Fernando Gea Aguilera, Matthieu Fiack, Mathieu Simon Paul Gruber
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Patent number: 11859534Abstract: An airflow profiled structure having a profiled leading edge. The profiled leading edge having, along a leading edge line, a serrated profile line with a succession of teeth and depressions. The airflow profiled structure also includes a porous acoustically absorbent region located towards the bottom of the depressions.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2019Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: Safran Aircraft EnginesInventors: Fernando Gea Aguilera, Mathieu Simon Paul Gruber, Georges Jean Xavier Riou
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Patent number: 11772777Abstract: A variable pitch bladed disc including a plurality of blades, each being of variable pitch about a blade axis of rotation and having a root, the plurality of blades including at least one first blade and at least one second blade, a plurality of rotor connecting shafts, each shaft having a root and a tip, the root of each blade being mounted on the tip of a corresponding rotor connecting shaft via a pivot so as to allow each blade to be rotated about the blade axis of rotation, the first blade having a first rotation axis inclination such that the rotation axis thereof is inclined in a fixed manner with respect to a radial axis passing through the root of the corresponding shaft, and the second blade has a second rotation axis inclination different from the first rotation axis inclination.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2021Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Clement Marcel Maurice Dejeu, Jonathan Evert Vlastuin, Mathieu Simon Paul Gruber
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Patent number: 11732588Abstract: A turbomachine includes a rotor and a stator, the stator having a plurality of profiled structures, each profiled structure being elongated in a direction of elongation in which the profiled structure has a length exposed to an airflow, and having a leading edge and/or a trailing edge, at least one of which is profiled and has, in said direction of elongation, serrations defined by a succession of peaks and troughs and having a geometric pattern transformed, over at least a part of said length exposed to the airflow, by successive scaling, via multiplicative factors, in the direction of elongation and/or transverse to the direction of elongation. The geometric pattern, as defined with reference to a radial distribution of the integral scale of the turbulence, evolves in a non-periodic manner.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2022Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignees: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES, OFFICE NATIONAL D'ETUDES ET DE RECHERCHES AEROSPATIALESInventors: Fernando Gea Aguilera, Raphaël Barrier, Mathieu Simon Paul Gruber, Cyril Polacsek, Hélène Dominique Jeanne Posson
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Publication number: 20230213000Abstract: An airflow profile structure having a leading and/or trailing edge profiled with a serrated profile having a succession of teeth and depressions. Along the leading and/or trailing edge, from a first location to a second location, the teeth of the serrated profile are individually inclined towards the second location.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2023Publication date: July 6, 2023Inventors: Fernando Gea Aguilera, Matthieu Fiack, Mathieu Simon Paul Gruber
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Publication number: 20230198517Abstract: An electronic circuit for uniform distribution of a current includes: a first MOSFET and a second MOSFET, wherein the first MOSFET and the second MOSFET are connected in parallel in order to distribute a current applied to an input terminal, the current flowing towards an output terminal of the electronic circuit, wherein the input terminal is respectively connected to a drain terminal of the first MOSFET and to a drain terminal of the second MOSFET; and a terminal for a control voltage, wherein the control voltage is applied to a gate terminal of the first MOSFET and to a gate terminal of the second MOSFET. The first MOSFET comprises a first resistor at the gate terminal of the first MOSFET, and the second MOSFET comprises a second resistor at the gate terminal of the second MOSFET.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2022Publication date: June 22, 2023Inventor: Paul Gruber
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Publication number: 20230187159Abstract: A protection circuit for a simulated battery cell having an output comprising an output voltage includes: at least one MOSFET connected to the output of the simulated battery cell for short-circuiting the output of the simulated battery cell; a capacitor connected to a gate electrode of the at least one MOSFET; an overvoltage detection device configured to charge the capacitor with the output voltage based on an overvoltage limit of the output voltage being exceeded; and a threshold voltage detection device configured to release the gate electrode based on a threshold value of a voltage at the capacitor not being reached.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2022Publication date: June 15, 2023Inventor: Paul Gruber
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Patent number: 11668196Abstract: A profiled structure for an aircraft or turbomachine is elongated in a direction in which the structure has a length exposed to an airflow and includes serrations defined by successive teeth and depressions. The serrations may be transverse to a leading edge and/or a trailing edge of the profiled structure and in the direction of elongation. Along the profiled leading edge and/or profiled trailing edge, the successive teeth and depressions may extend only over a part of the length exposed to the flow. The amplitude and/or spacing of the teeth may vary monotonically except for the few teeth nearest each end of the part, with a remaining part of the length being smooth.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2019Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignees: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES, OFFICE NATIONAL D'ETUDES ET DE RECHERCHES AEROSPATIALESInventors: Fernando Gea Aguilera, Raphaël Barrier, Mathieu Simon Paul Gruber, Cyril Polacsek, Hélène Dominique Jeanne Posson
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Publication number: 20230131079Abstract: A method for inputting and/or outputting signals having a selectable sample rate in a time-synchronized manner on a group of input and/or output channels of an electronic circuit includes: configuring each channel of the group at a standard sample period; synchronously initiating all the channels of the group at the standard sample period; detecting an entry for a modified sample period TPeriod of a first channel of the group; detecting a current counter value TCounter; configuring the first channel at the modified sample period; establishing a waiting time of TWaiting clocks in accordance with TWaiting=TPeriod?mod(TCounter, TPeriod), where mod(TCounter, TPeriod) denotes the division remainder from the current counter value TCounter and the modified sample period TPeriod; and initiating the first channel after the waiting time TWaiting.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2021Publication date: April 27, 2023Inventors: Dominik Lubeley, Marc Schlenger, Paul Gruber
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Publication number: 20230123376Abstract: A turbomachine includes a rotor and a stator, the stator having a plurality of profiled structures, each profiled structure being elongated in a direction of elongation in which the profiled structure has a length exposed to an airflow, and having a leading edge and/or a trailing edge, at least one of which is profiled and has, in said direction of elongation, serrations defined by a succession of peaks and troughs and having a geometric pattern transformed, over at least a part of said length exposed to the airflow, by successive scaling, via multiplicative factors, in the direction of elongation and/or transverse to the direction of elongation. The geometric pattern, as defined with reference to a radial distribution of the integral scale of the turbulence, evolves in a non-periodic manner.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2022Publication date: April 20, 2023Inventors: Fernando GEA AGUILERA, Raphaël BARRIER, Mathieu Simon Paul GRUBER, Cyril POLACSEK, Hélène Dominique Jeanne POSSON
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Patent number: 11629664Abstract: An airflow profile structure having a leading and/or trailing edge profiled with a serrated profile. The serrated profile has a succession of teeth and depressions, characterized in that, along the leading and/or trailing edge, from a first location to a second location, the teeth of the serrated profile are individually inclined towards the second location.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2019Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Assignee: Safran Aircraft EnginesInventors: Fernando Gea Aguilera, Matthieu Fiack, Mathieu Simon Paul Gruber
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Patent number: 11591913Abstract: A variable-pitch bladed disc including a plurality of blades, each at a variable pitch in relation to a rotation axis of the blade and each having a root, the plurality of blades including at least one first blade and at least one second blade, a plurality of rotor connecting shafts, each having a root and a tip, each root being mounted at the tip of a corresponding rotor connecting shaft by way of a pivot so as to allow each blade to rotate about the blade rotation axis, the first blade having a first blade inclination, such that the first blade is inclined in a fixed manner with respect to the blade rotation axis of the first blade, and the second blade having a second blade inclination different from the first blade inclination.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2015Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: Safran Aircraft EnginesInventors: Clement Marcel Maurice Dejeu, Jonathan Evert Vlastuin, Mathieu Simon Paul Gruber
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Patent number: 11560796Abstract: The invention relates to a profiled structure elongated in a direction in which the structure has a length exposed to an airflow and transversely to which the structure has a leading edge and/or a trailing edge, at least one of which is profiled and has, along said direction of elongation, geometric serration patterns defined by a succession of peaks and troughs. Along the profiled leading edge and/or trailing edge, the serration patterns have a geometric pattern that is repeated in the direction of elongation, the shape of which is stretched and/or contracted transversely to the direction of elongation and/or in the direction of elongation.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2019Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignees: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES, OFFICE NATIONAL D'ETUDES ET DE RECHERCHES AEROSPATIALESInventors: Fernando Gea Aguilera, Raphaël Barrier, Mathieu Simon Paul Gruber, Cyril Polacsek, Hélène Dominique Jeanne Posson
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Patent number: 11525365Abstract: A front fan turbomachine includes an annular separating wall having a slat for separating an air flow between a primary flow and a secondary flow, the slat having a leading edge; inlet guide vanes (IGV) for guiding the primary flow and outlet guide vanes (OGV) blades for guiding the secondary flow. The leading edge of the slat has a serrated profile having a succession of teeth and depressions.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2019Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Fernando Gea Aguilera, Matthieu Fiack, Mathieu Simon Paul Gruber
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Publication number: 20220361602Abstract: A protective hood for surgical use, apt to be worn, in sterile form, by an operator over an instrumented helmet, is provided. The hood includes a front vision lens and an enveloping main body fixed to the vision lens, configured to cover wholly the operator's head and neck and an upper part of the chest. The enveloping main body has a front portion and a rear portion connected and made integral by means of two opposite side portions, wherein the rear portion has a pair of lateral strings arranged on opposite sides with respect to a sagittal plane of the operator and which extend, in use, laterally outside, which strings are grasped by the operator during wearing in order to ease unwinding the hood.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2020Publication date: November 17, 2022Applicant: THI TOTAL HEALTHCARE INNOVATION GMBHInventors: Giorgio ROSATI, Paul GRUBER
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Patent number: 11399580Abstract: A barrier system, device, and method protects medical professionals and patients from exposure to contaminants and bodily fluids is provided. The system includes a head unit shaped to be worn over the head of the wearer; a hood positioned over the head unit; one or more sensors configured to produce one or more sensor-output signals; and a controller connected to the one or more sensors and configured to produce one or more controller-output signals based on the one or more sensor-output signals. Further, a device inside a barrier system is controlled by (a) sensing one or more characteristics; (b) producing one or more sensor signals based on the sensed one or more characteristics; (c) converting and/or processing the one or more sensor signals to produce one or more controller-output signals; and (d) controlling the device based on the one or more controller-output signals.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2017Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: THI TOTAL HEALTHCARE INNOVATION GMBHInventors: Giorgio Rosati, Paul Gruber, Richard Nickl, David Lee Cargille
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Publication number: 20210388725Abstract: The invention relates to a profiled structure, elongated in a direction in which the structure has a length exposed to an airflow, and transversely to which the structure has a leading edge (164) and/or a trailing edge, at least one of which is profiled and has, in said direction of elongation, serrations (28a) defined by successive teeth (30) and depressions (32). Along the profiled leading edge and/or profiled trailing edge, the successive teeth (30) and depressions (32) extend only over a part of said length exposed to the flow over which the amplitude and/or spacing of the teeth varies monotonically except for the few teeth nearest each end of said part, a remaining part (280) of said length being smooth.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2019Publication date: December 16, 2021Inventors: Fernando GEA AGUILERA, Raphaël BARRIER, Mathieu Simon Paul GRUBER, Cyril POLACSEK, Hélène Dominique Jeanne POSSON
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Publication number: 20210291962Abstract: A variable pitch bladed disc including a plurality of blades, each being of variable pitch about a blade axis of rotation and having a root, the plurality of blades including at least one first blade and at least one second blade, a plurality of rotor connecting shafts, each shaft having a root and a tip, the root of each blade being mounted on the tip of a corresponding rotor connecting shaft via a pivot so as to allow each blade to be rotated about the blade axis of rotation, the first blade having a first rotation axis inclination such that the rotation axis thereof is inclined in a fixed manner with respect to a radial axis passing through the root of the corresponding shaft, and the second blade has a second rotation axis inclination different from the first rotation axis inclination.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2021Publication date: September 23, 2021Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Clement Marcel Maurice DEJEU, Jonathan Evert VLASTUIN, Mathieu Simon Paul GRUBER
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Publication number: 20210228919Abstract: A barrier system, device, and method protects medical professionals and patients from exposure to contaminants and bodily fluids is provided. The system includes a head unit shaped to be worn over the head of the wearer; a hood positioned over the head unit; one or more sensors configured to produce one or more sensor-output signals; and a controller connected to the one or more sensors and configured to produce one or more controller-output signals based on the one or more sensor-output signals. Further, a device inside a barrier system is controlled by (a) sensing one or more characteristics; (b) producing one or more sensor signals based on the sensed one or more characteristics; (c) converting and/or processing the one or more sensor signals to produce one or more controller-output signals; and (d) controlling the device based on the one or more controller-output signals.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 7, 2017Publication date: July 29, 2021Inventors: Giorgio ROSATI, Paul GRUBER, Richard NICKL, David Lee CARGILLE
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Patent number: 11046424Abstract: A variable pitch bladed disc including a plurality of blades, each being of variable pitch about a blade axis of rotation and having a root, the plurality of blades including at least one first blade and at least one second blade, a plurality of rotor connecting shafts, each shaft having a root and a tip, the root of each blade being mounted on the tip of a corresponding rotor connecting shaft via a pivot so as to allow each blade to be rotated about the blade axis of rotation, the first blade having a first rotation axis inclination such that the rotation axis thereof is inclined in a fixed manner with respect to a radial axis passing through the root of the corresponding shaft, and the second blade has a second rotation axis inclination different from the first rotation axis inclination.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2015Date of Patent: June 29, 2021Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Clement Marcel Maurice Dejeu, Jonathan Evert Vlastuin, Mathieu Simon Paul Gruber